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The Eiffel Tower was built in Paris by the Gustave Eiffel specialized in steel constructions, for the 1889 world exhibition in Paris. The intent was just to demonstrate the capabilities of modern engineering. A daring engineer's dream, the Eiffel Tower weighs 7000 tons, but the pressure it applies on the ground is only equivalent to that of a chair with a man seated on it! Each one of the about 12,000 iron pieces were designed separately to give them exactly the shape needed. All pieces were prefabricated and fit together using approx. 7 million nails.

The Eiffel Tower caused a violent polemic, meeting nearly unanimous hostility from the Parisian artistic
world. Once the Tower was finished the criticism burnt itself out in the presence of the completed masterpiece and in the light of the enormous popular success with which it was greeted. It received two million visitors during the World's Fair of 1889.

At 300 meters, it remained the world highest building until the construction of the Chrysler building in New York City in 1929. Now 320 m. high with its television antennas, it still incredibly towers above Paris, a city almost free from skyscrapers. Open air elevators bring visitors up to the first (57m. high), the second (115m. high) and the third level (276m. high). Each one provides different and interesting views
of Paris and the surrounding Ile de France region.

On the Ground: The machinery of the 1899 elevator. Every visitor with a ticket to visit the monument can watch the machinery of the corresponding elevator in operation in the East and West pillars. This voyage underground, in an atmosphere which evokes Jules Verne, lets the visitors discover the imposing hydraulic machines designed by Gustave Eiffel. This machinery is still used after being restored and
computerized.

Consistently modern, the Eiffel Tower makes a special effort to surprise visitors. Do not miss the latest futurist, interactive attraction — the Eiffel Tower Visitors Galaxy — where you take part in the construction of a virtual Eiffel Tower. In conjunction with the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites, the Tower offers groups a series of conference tours, highlighting the history of the monument in its time, its contribution to modern metal architecture and all the scientific and technical applications experimented on the Tower.